Hastings Battleaxe goes to Portugal

It has become an annual routine – a night in Faro, then up to rural Sao Marcos da Serra to spend a few nights with daughter Clara, her husband Steve and grand-daughter Eve, then, this…

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Hastings Battleaxe explores Malaga

And back home again… Although Philosopher and I had a good time, we wouldn’t class the trip as one of the Great Holidays… Readers may remember that we had changed our destination from Chamonix to…

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Hastings Battleaxe does anything to avoid today…

Avoid what? It’s obvious, isn’t it?  As I write this, Trump is just about to be inaugurated as US President. A day that the likes of me could never imagined would actually arrive. But it…

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All change for Hastings Battleaxe

Well, obviously there was the biggest change – the General Election – on the very day we came back from Turkey. Great sense of relief here at Battleaxe Towers. This post is mainly about Turkey…

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Hastings Battleaxe is back from Portugal

Eh? Back from Portugal? Last time we heard from Battleaxe she was languishing in A & E at the Conquest Hospital… Well, that was part of the panic, we were supposed to fly out the…

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